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Donald Trump’s ancestry is , with the paternal line tracing to Kallstadt in Bavaria (originally spelled “Drumpf/Drumpft”) and the maternal line to the Isle of Lewis in Scotland; both lines are documen...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump left Kallstadt, Bavaria, for the United States at age 16 in 1885 largely to escape compulsory military service and because the village offered limited economic prospects; h...
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump) was born on 14 March 1869 in the village of Kallstadt (then in the Palatinate, part of the Kingdom of Bavaria), according to multiple genealogical and historical...
August Belmont was a German‑Jewish immigrant who built a major New York banking house and opposed slavery in principle while prioritizing the preservation of the Union and commercial ties with the Sou...
Name variants—, Trumpf, Drumpf and related forms—reflect centuries of fluid spelling in German-language sources and anglicization in records, and they materially affect search results: German parish a...
Most late‑19th‑century German emigrants came from a mix of western, central and increasingly eastern German lands — with large flows from regions such as the Rhineland/Hesse area earlier in the centur...